Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century France become a great film is the acting of every one of its cast, principals or less, Jean-Louis Barrault turns in what is probably the great cinema performance of the decade as Baptiste. He is magnificent both as the frustrated dreamer of real life and as the master pantomimist whose inner thoughts are projected into his stage presentations...
...Through seductiveness, or first idea, the painter attains the universal . .. With certain painters-Titian for example-this seductiveness is so powerful that it never abandons them ... I myself am very weak, it is difficult for me to remain my own master in front of the subject...
...muggy afternoon last week, the 15 boys and 25 girls (spelling is a literal-minded business) clustered around microphones in the National Press Club for the finals. After a few rounds of easy ones, the spellers began to trip. Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary . . . (The master of ceremonies tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion...
...Spell ponchol" said the master of ceremonies. Darrell took a deep breath and plunged: "P-a-u-n-c-h-o." Jean spelled it: "P-a-n-c-h-o." Both also missed on termagant and Pharisaical. Darrell muffed oligarchy, but Jean got it right. Then, rubbing a lucky penny, she rattled off psychiatry without a pause...
...Degins with a cold shower and five minutes of Christian "prelude"; it ends with five minutes of silent thought. Says Hahn: No intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...